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Central Asiatic Expeditions : fossils and artifacts
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 147
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The film records the paleontological finds of the expedition. The most important is shown first: the discovery of the "perfect dozen" nest of dinosaur eggs by George Olsen, paleontologist, at the Flaming Cliffs of Shabarakh Usu in the Gobi Desert. Bones of Baluchitherium, one of the largest land mammals, a hornless relative of today's rhinoceros, and Embolitherium, an Oligocene mammal, are also seen being...
Dates:
1925
Diaries: [microform]
Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #15-23
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1907-1948
William King Gregory papers, 1889-1948 (bulk 1906-1948)
Collection
Identifier: Mss .G7441
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of administrative, scientific, academic and personal papers, and correspondence. Papers include Gregory's general correspondence with universities, colleges and scientists about his research topics and publications; correspondence with museums about purchasing replicas of fossils; and with students seeking employement. Other papers include lecture notes prepared for zoology classes emphasizing evolution, 1925-1926 and 1939; and manuscripts and notes for his...
Dates:
1889-1948; Majority of material found within 1906-1948
Edmund Heller diary
Collection
Identifier: Mss .H45
Scope and Contents
The diary is dated from October 9, 1917 to January 12, 1918, with undated addenda and address lists. It contains Heller’s personal reflections and daily activities on his solo return trip from the First Asiatic Zoological Expedition. He discusses the sites and architecture, the flora and weather, as well as the culture and his impressions of the people of each country. He writes of goods for sale, with a particular interest in lantern slides and fur-skinned merchandise. Many of his...
Dates:
October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918
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- Diaries 1
- East Asia -- Description and travel 1
- Extinct mammals -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 1
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- Fishes -- Anatomy. 1
- Fishes -- Evolution. 1
- Honolulu (Hawaii) 1
- Ichthyologists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Mammals -- Evolution. 1
- Mongolia -- Antiquities 1
- Moving Images 1
- Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 1
- Natural history museum curators -- Correspondence 1
- Neolithic period -- Mongolia 1
- New York (N.Y.) 1
- New Zealand -- Description and travel. 1
- Ontogeny. 1
- Paleontologists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Paleontology -- Research -- History. 1
- Primates -- Evolution. 1
- San Francisco (Calif.) 1
- Scientific expeditions -- Africa. 1
- Scientific expeditions -- Australia. 1
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- Seoul (Korea) 1
- Shanghai (China) 1
- Tokyo (Japan) 1
- Transvaal (South Africa) -- Description and travel. 1
- Vertebrates, Fossil 1
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- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 2
- Adamson, Hans Christian 1
- Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 1
- Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 1
- Asiatic Zoölogical Expedition (1st : 1916-1917) 1
- Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
- Beebe, William, 1877-1962 1
- Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
- Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 1
- Brown, Barnum 1
- Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
- Central African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1947-1948) 1
- Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 1
- Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 1
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 1
- Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 1
- Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 1
- Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 1
- Department of Ichthyology 1
- Field Museum of Natural History 1
- Fleischmann-Clark, American Museum, Indo-China Expedition (1936) 1
- Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
- Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 1
- Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939 1
- Hellman, Milo, 1872-1947 1
- Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 1
- Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
- Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 1
- Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 1
- Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 1
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
- Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
- Morden-Clark Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926) 1
- Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 1
- Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 1
- Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 1
- Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 1
- O'Donnell-Clark African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1931) 1
- Olsen, George, d. 1939 1
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
- Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 1
- Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 1
- Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 1
- Shackelford, James B. 1
- Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 1
- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
- Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1851-1918 1 ∧ less
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